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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Upcoming change to SOA values in .com and .net zones
On Wed, 7 Jan 2004, Richard D G Cox wrote: > > On 7 Jan 2004 23:02 UTC Frank Louwers <[email protected]> wrote: > > | stuid question > > Yup! > > | but isn't 2004010101 (today) > 1076370400 (9 Feb 2004)? > > Nope! > > >> The new format will be the UTC time at the moment of zone generation > >> encoded as the number of seconds since the UNIX epoch. > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > ... and not as YYYYMMDDHHMMSS or any contracted version thereof! > I think what Frank is asking is a valid question. The way BIND/etc determine when a new zone file has been issued is by seeing if it has a higher SN than the currently caches zone. Frank's question is that when view simply as 10 digit integers (which is how BIND uses them) 2004010801 is a larger integer than 1076370400. This might cause problems with cached zones and other such staleness, so it does seem a valid concern. -Scott --- Scott Call Router Geek, ATGi, home of $6.95 Prime Rib I make the world a better place, I boycott Wal-Mart
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